Athlon 64 3000+ Socket 939
ASUS A8V + onboard audio/LAN
200GB SATA 7200RPM 8MB
512MB 400MHz DDRSDRAM

This shit is the shit. I replaced my Athlon 1800+, ABit KR7A, 512MB, SB Audigy, D-Link 538TX, and noticed a difference in boot time (also POST is much faster, just 2 seconds cold boot to OS bootup) and startup time of a few apps (Gimp and OpenOffice) and in ripping + re/encoding media. The best part is the first time I booted up I didn't have to configure shit, bootup time was not extended by detecting devices, and all my devices functioned right away and kept my settings (like for my keyboard, video card, etc, didn't need to reconfigure because it was routed through a different chipset or something).

But since I had a 64-bit CPU, I wanted to install a 64-bit OS, and put it on the SATA HDD. Installed (Ubuntu x86-64), selected the software packages I had before, copied over my home folder, and everything worked as it did before with no reconfiguring. The only software I'm missing is WINE, as it won't compile yet on x86-64. I was happy to find all Win32 codecs still worked with MPlayer, I thought maybe it wouldn't be possible.

I don't have a copy of Windows XP 64-bit so I didn't try that yet, but I tried Windows 2000 and played some Half Life 2 and it worked as well as could be expected with 512MB and GeForce 4 4200 64MB. I didn't really play it before on my old hardware though so I don't know what the difference is.

Hmm, I guess I didn't really need an upgrade...............

Oh well, having USB2 ports instead of USB is nice for my MP3 player, and the onboard audio is better than the SB Audigy (that would randomly change hardware address and Windows would have to redetect it every other boot-up... I don't want flaky hardware in my PC. The SBLive does the same shit on a different mobo, must be Creative).